Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Texas Takes A Giant Step Backwards

The Texas GOP held their convention HateFest over the weekend and became the first state GOP group to deny Log Cabin Republicans, an organization of gay conservatives, a booth because, well, they’re gay y’all. And while the decision was a close 4-3 vote by the Texas State Republican Executive Committee, it was still a vote to Don’t Say Gay.

The Log Cabin Republicans [LCR] said the Texas convention should have allowed them to host a booth in the name of “inclusion.” Inclusion? The GOP? Well, the LCR says the proof that the GOP is more inclusive is the fact that a Mexican-American conservative Mayra Flores won a special election to take the state’s 34th congressional district.

“Texas Republicans just saw on Tuesday night what happens when the party includes new faces and voices – a Democrat-held seat was flipped for the first time in nearly a hundred years by a conservative Mexican woman. It’s clear that inclusion wins, which makes the Texas Republican Party leadership decision to exclude the Texas Log Cabin Republicans from their convention not just narrow-minded, but politically short-sighted.”

Let’s be clear, one Mexican-American winning her election does not make the party inclusive when they want troops at the border to keep immigrants, like Mayra Flores’ ancestors, out of the country.

And here are more examples, via the Texas GOP’s own 1972 2022 platform, that illustrates their inclusivity:

Homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice.

President Joe Biden “was not legitimately elected.”

Texas GOP Senator John Cornyn was rebuked for merely taking part in bipartisan gun talks.

Texas schoolchildren should “learn about the humanity of the preborn child” including teaching that life begins at fertilization.

Gender identity disorder is “a mental health condition” requiring official documents to adhere to “biological gender,” and allowing civil penalties and monetary compensation to “de-transitioners” who have received gender-affirming surgery, which the Texas GOP calls a form of medical malpractice.

Remove the Legislature’s power “to regulate the wearing of arms, with a view to prevent crime.”

That’s Texas, where they have just seen schoolchildren slaughtered by a gun nut, where they spent part of the winter without heat or electricity because of the incompetence of the GOP, and that’s the Texas GOP.

Inclusive they are not.

17 comments:

  1. Oh, don't get me started with the Cabinettes. That bunch of spineless, self-hating idiots who worship the altar of money. Whores. The fuckery going on right now in Texas is incredible. They are rolling back rights left and right. Gay marriage is next.
    Hey, if you can't say gay, you cannot say gay married, no?
    Abbot is aiming for the presidency, same as DeathSantis.

    XOXO

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    1. The Texas GOP simply needs to put the white sheets and the pointy hats back on because at this point there's no hiding their proclivities.

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  2. We have people like Maya Flores in this side of the pond. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Home Secretary are both children of immigrants and good for them. But they deny to others what has been given to their families. Both our countries face inflation, increasing fuel costs (fuel nearly $10 per gallon here) etc., but rather than deal with issues that affect the whole country the Repugnants and the Tories muck around with window dressing, dusting the shelves while the house burns.

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    1. It's the GOP "Look over there" policy, where they don't face realty, or run on reality, but instead focus on an imagined threat.

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    1. Sad that the Texas GOP hasn't realized that, while the state hasn't gone entirely Blue, it is leaning more and more that way.

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  4. If Texas takes any more steps backwards, it's going to end up in China!

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    1. BWHAHAHAHAHA...thanks i sprayed my drink Deedles!

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    2. The Grand Duchess Deedles for the win! 😂😂😂

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  5. Poor Texas. Best wishes to the Blue Folks
    among them.
    xoxo :-)

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    1. Hopefully the Blues will get out and vote en masse.
      xoxo

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  6. The LCR evidently missed the plank stating homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle. And I think you missed the plank regarding their secession from the United States. The GOP in Texas is on its way to being declared a terrorist group.

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    1. Oh no, the LCR heard that part, but they are so self-loathing that they don't care.
      Texas has been threatening secession since before Ann Richards was governor.

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  7. A better question would be when does Texas ever go in the right direction???? On anything.

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  8. I have always been bewildered by Log Cabiners, but in this era of such extremism and polarization I don't see HOW they can continue to support the Republican party.

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